Something's goes wrong every time I push a branch to origin. When I start, everything looks ok: $ git remote show origin * remote origin Fetch URL: http://monster/gitrepos/stasher.git/ Push URL: http://monster/gitrepos/stasher.git/ HEAD branch: master Remote branches: distreboot tracked master tracked Local branches configured for 'git pull': distreboot merges with remote distreboot master merges with remote master Local refs configured for 'git push': distreboot pushes to distreboot (fast-forwardable) master pushes to master (up to date) I push: $ git push Fetching remote heads... refs/ refs/heads/ refs/tags/ updating 'refs/heads/distreboot' from 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 to e0bce568272859eca817455acafb5f0a52b8fd5a sending 6 objects done Updating remote server info To http://monster/gitrepos/stasher.git/ 6d4900e..e0bce56 distreboot -> distreboot This breaks something: $ git remote show origin * remote origin Fetch URL: http://monster/gitrepos/stasher.git/ Push URL: http://monster/gitrepos/stasher.git/ HEAD branch: (unknown) Remote branches: distreboot tracked refs/remotes/origin/master stale (use 'git remote prune' to remove) Local branches configured for 'git pull': distreboot merges with remote distreboot master merges with remote master Local ref configured for 'git push': distreboot pushes to distreboot (up to date) Going forward, clone will fail: $ git clone http://monster/gitrepos/stasher.git/ stasher-test Cloning into 'stasher-test'... warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout. If I do some random fiddling in the origin repo (not really knowing what I'm doing, I can usually fix it: sh-4.2$ cat HEAD ref: refs/heads/master sh-4.2$ ls -al refs/heads total 16 drwxr-xr-x 3 apache apache 4096 Jun 17 10:53 . drwxr-xr-x 4 apache apache 4096 May 24 10:37 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Jun 17 10:53 .DAV -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 41 Jun 17 10:53 distreboot sh-4.2$ cat info/refs e0bce568272859eca817455acafb5f0a52b8fd5a refs/heads/distreboot sh-4.2$ git gc Counting objects: 124, done. Delta compression using up to 8 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (59/59), done. Writing objects: 100% (124/124), done. Total 124 (delta 67), reused 116 (delta 63) sh-4.2$ cat info/refs e0bce568272859eca817455acafb5f0a52b8fd5a refs/heads/distreboot ee94edb5fcdc7a28ffbdeaabe841e3ecff863983 refs/heads/master sh-4.2$ ls -al refs/heads total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 apache apache 4096 Jun 17 10:54 . drwxr-xr-x 4 apache apache 4096 May 24 10:37 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Jun 17 10:53 .DAV git clone starts working again. Until I push the branch, and then master breaks again. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html